Chantelle Cameron Targets Claressa Shields After WBA, WBC, WBO Victory

Chantelle Cameron barely had time to let the new belts settle on her shoulders before she started talking about the next mountain.

Fresh from a brutal, breathless win over Mikaela Mayer in Birmingham, the newly crowned WBA, WBC and WBO super-welterweight champion has set her sights on Claressa Shields – and insists talks are already racing ahead.

From edging Mayer to chasing the ‘GWOAT’

Cameron’s points victory over Mayer at MPW-06 was the kind of fight that cements reputations. It was tight, tense and high quality, decided by scores of 97-93, 97-93 and 96-94. Mayer pushed. Cameron pushed back harder.

By the final bell, Cameron had not only unified another division but added fresh shine to a résumé that already includes the distinction no one else can claim: she is the only woman to have beaten Katie Taylor in the professional ranks.

That win alone could have allowed her to coast, to play safe, to cash in on rematches. Many assumed a second chapter with Mayer would be the obvious next step after Saturday’s thriller.

Cameron has other ideas.

She wants Claressa Shields – the self-styled “GWOAT”, the woman sitting atop the sport with a 19-0 record spread across multiple weight classes and world titles at middleweight with both the WBC and WBA.

“I fancy (fighting) Clarissa Shields,” Cameron told Sky Sports, laying her ambition bare. “I think I really do want to dare to be great and Clarissa Shields, she's the GWOAT, she's number one and that's going to be a fight that will just be unbelievable.”

For Cameron, this isn’t just another belt hunt. It’s a legacy play.

Talks “very advanced” for blockbuster showdown

The idea of Cameron stepping up again to face Shields once sounded like fantasy matchmaking. Not now.

“The teams are actually in talks for that now so there is actually movement on that fight and for me that makes me giddy,” Cameron said. “I think that really is me challenging the very, very best and what an opportunity if this fight comes off.

“They (talks) are very advanced; it is moving pretty quick is what my managers told me, and it is a very high possibility the fight will happen.”

The language is striking. No tentative circling, no vague interest. Cameron is talking like a fighter who expects the call, not one simply angling for headlines.

If it lands, it would pit one of Britain’s most relentless road warriors against the dominant American technician who has made a habit of cleaning out divisions.

The Lauren Price question

Shields, of course, already had another name in the frame.

After she stopped Kaye Scott in the sixth round in August to reclaim her middleweight belts, the American made it clear she fancied a clash with Lauren Price between December and January. Price welcomed the idea. It felt like the next logical step in Shields’ UK storyline.

Her promoter Dmitriy Salita still talks about that fight as a major event – and about where it should land.

“Claressa came down to middleweight to make the biggest fights possible,” Salita told Sky Sports. “We want to make this a mega-event, and I believe that fight belongs in the United States.

“That being said, we love the UK, and another fight there is certainly not out of the question. It's an incredible time for women's boxing.”

Price remains in the conversation. So does the location. Salita sees the US as the natural home for Shields’ biggest nights, but the pull of the UK – and its surging appetite for women’s boxing – is impossible to ignore.

Now Cameron has barged into that equation, belts in hand and momentum at her back.

A new power struggle at the top

What was once a straight line to Shields–Price has become a triangle of possibilities at the top of the women’s game.

Shields wants the biggest fights. Salita wants a “mega-event”. Cameron wants to “dare to be great”. Price wants her shot. The schedule cannot accommodate everyone at once.

Something has to give.

If Cameron does land Shields next, it would be another audacious leap from a fighter who has made a habit of walking into the toughest rooms and leaving with the belts. If she doesn’t, and Shields turns to Price first, the Briton from Northampton will not be short of options – but she has made it abundantly clear which one sets her pulse racing.

For now, the message from Cameron’s side is simple: talks are real, talks are advanced, and the clock is ticking.

If the “GWOAT” and the woman who beat Katie Taylor end up sharing a ring, it won’t just be another title fight. It will be a battle to define who truly owns this era.